WORLD (MT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

8:00 pm

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid: American Experience
In the 1890s, the exploits of Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy) and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (Sundance Kid) and the Wild Bunch Gang captivated Americans by seeming to vanish into thin air after robbing banks and trains in the American West. This film traces their outlaw career and success in eluding the Pinkerton detectives and other lawmen.G

9:00 pm

Outdoor Idaho"You Can't Get There from Here"
This episode visits the town of Roosevelt, now under water; travels into the wilderness on the Selway River; descends into a secret cave; and profiles a wilderness pilot.G

9:30 pm

Dialogue"Miss Representation"
Filmmaker Jennifer Seibel Newsom talks with host Marcia Franklin about making the documentary, Miss Representation, which explores how inaccurate portrayals of women by the media are connected to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.G

10:00 pm

Nature"The Animal House"
From termites' towering metropolises to prairie dogs' underground cities complete with heating, cooling and intersecting highways, NATURE goes above ground and underground on this tour of the homelife of wildlife. Guided by instinct, animal architects have developed some of the most innovative and practical dwellings in the world.G

11:00 pm

African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross"Into The Fire (1861-1896)"
Into the Fire examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but tragically brief "moment in the sun." From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their own liberation, forcing the Union to confront the issue of slavery by fleeing the plantations and taking up arms to serve with honor in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom-rebuilding families shattered by slavery; demanding economic, political and civil rights; even winning elected office. D